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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (8): 525798-525798.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2021.25798

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Requirement of hypersonic aircraft power

ZUO Linxuan, ZHANG Chenlin, WANG Xiao, LU Enwei, ZHU Wei   

  1. AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute, Shenyang 110035, China
  • Received:2021-04-15 Revised:2021-05-08 Published:2021-05-26
  • Supported by:
    Ph.D Innovation Foundation of Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute(SBJ-005)

Abstract: With the great progress of hypersonic technology, especially under the background of the gradual engineering orientation of the scramjet technology, the discussion of hypersonic aircraft and its power system appears frequently in recent years. In order to operate in a wide flight speed range, combined power systems based on different thermal cycle modes have been proposed. As a result, there appear plenty of schools of systems in the development of hypersonic aircraft power, which poses a great challenge to the selection of hypersonic aircraft power system. Based on a review of aircraft development history and hypersonic related development technologies, this paper expounds the conclusion that combined power is the main development direction of hypersonic aircraft power at this stage. Aiming at the requirements of hypersonic aircraft, the working principle, working characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of several hypersonic combined power systems are sorted out and analyzed. Finally, the challenges to the future hypersonic aircraft research by using the combined power system are also predicted, as with the increase of flight speed, the integration of hypersonic aircraft and power is imperative.

Key words: hypersonic aircraft, combined power, Turbine-Based Combined Cycle (TBCC), Rocket-Based Combined Cycle (RBCC), ramjet, integration of aircraft and engine

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